Tony and Emmy Award-winner Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Paul Ford on piano, will be in concert to Long Wharf Theatre's gala at on Friday, June 7 in New Haven.

The evening will being at 6 p.m. with cocktails, small plate tastings, and a silent auction. Patinkin will begin his performance at 8 p.m. at the 404 seat main stage theater. The evening will conclude with a dessert reception at 9:30 p.m.

Patinkin won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "Evita" and was again nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical "Sunday in the Park with George." Other Broadway credits include: "The Secret Garden," "March of the Falsettosd" and "The Wild Party."

In 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man concert with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. His other solo concerts, "Celebrating Sondheim" and "Mamaloshen" have been presented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and have toured the United States.

Patinkin won a 1995 Emmy Award for TV's ”Chicago Hope,” and starred in the CBS series “Criminal Minds” as FBIprofiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series “Dead Like Me” as the reaper Rube Sofer.

Patinkin begins a third season as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson in the Emmy Award-winning Showtime Original Series “Homeland”.